In testing times such as these, is there really space in the timetable to teach philosophy? The great German philosopher Hegel (1770-1831) said: "Education to independence demands that young people ...

Schools are generally taught to teach kids what to think, but what if they taught them how to think instead? According to a new study conducted among 3,000 kids in 48 schools across England, ...

Dr Simon Longstaff AO is the Executive Director of The Ethics Centre. While reading Steve Fuller's recent article about philosophy and the academy, my mind whisked me back to some of my earliest days ...

A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study ...

While other five-year-olds are learning to spell their names and tie up shoelaces, infants at one school are debating life's great mysteries - in philosophy lessons. Staff say that instead of ...

Real philosophy (Back to big, Editorial 5 June) is concentration not on fact, which it respects, but on the logic of ordinary intelligence: 1) clarity, usually in the form of analysis; 2) consistency ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Every Wednesday afternoon in term 3, all students at Malabar Public School put away their textbooks ...

Philosophy lessons have a London primary school record the top SATs test scores in England for the second year in a row, the school's headmistress claimed today. Primary league tables 2012: "Engaging ...